RSS/ATOM Feed Analyzer
June 02 2008 12:48 am | SimplePie
Check out my new Feed Analyzer.
All you do is enter an RSS or Atom feed URL (or simply a website URL and the feed URL will be auto-detected) and the analyzer, using SimplePie, will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about that feed but were afraid to ask. It answers questions like:
- What is the effective feed URL?
- What is the feed description?
- Is the feed copyrighted?
- Does the feed have a channel image?
- Is the feed localized with a latitude/longitude data?
- Do feed items have publication dates? (some don’t which can cause problems in multifeeds)
- Does the feed’s corresponding website have a favIcon?
- What is the feed’s title?
- What is the feed’s source website link?
- What type of feed is this? RSS? Atom? RDF?
- What language is the feed in?
- How is the feed encoded? UTF-8? ISO-8859-1?
- Who is the author of the feed?
- How many items are there in the feed?
- How often are posts made?
- What is the oldest feed item? (tells you how long your cache duration should be)
- Are posts sorted by date? If so, are they sorted (reverse) chronologically?
In addition, the analyzer gives you:
- A summary of all items in the feed.
- A detailed list of all the items in the feed.
- A list of all the sub-elements in an item element along with the required SimplePie code to extract those elements.
- A dump of the raw HTTP data for the feed so you can visually check the feed’s HTTP headers and body for errors.
- A demo of the feed.
Bonus:
- Allows easy integration with Firefox’s feed subscription feature.
- Validate the feed at FeedValidator.org.
Geoffrey Sneddon on 10 Jun 2008 at 2:06 pm #
Can’t you give the standard API for bits of data that are available through it?
Oh, and http://feedparser.org/tests/wellformed/encoding/x80_windows-1252.xml seems to fail on it.
The encoding seems to be misleading, as it always returns UTF-8.
Michael Shipley on 11 Jun 2008 at 9:53 pm #
Thanks for finding those errors Geoffrey I will work on those things.